Associazione Nazionale Sandro Pertini

Along with creating an inventory and a catalogue of documents and books concerning Sandro Pertini, the Association is progressively transferring a large part of its holdings onto a digital format. This serves the dual purpose of preservation and of promoting its accessibility, thanks to computer technology, to a vaster public, particularly to younger generations.

This undertaking invests not only Pertini's papers, the photographic and audiovisual materials and personally-owned objects, but also the documents concerning the history of the workers' movement and of the socialist movement in the twentieth century.

This undertaking is presently focussed on the creation of a database for the iconographic holdings concerning left-wing politics in Italy and abroad from the end of the 19th century to the present and a database on electoral programs of the principal political forces of European social-democratic thought.

At its offices, the Foundation already offers to the public appropriate facilities for viewing photographic images-both originals and simulacra on CD-Rom, audio materials-on cassettes and audio CDs, and audio-visual materials, in the form of VHS cassettes, video CDs and DVD-Rom.

The most important documents will be displayed in the offices of the Association in Palazzo Coppi in an exhibition alternating museum materials, paintings, personal objects and multi-media materials.